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. . . 5 References 2014 58 27 177 242 View of Chinatown on Spadina Avenue The city's population grew by 4% (96,073 residents) between 1996 and 2001 1% (21,787 residents) between 2001 and 2006 4.3% (111,779 residents) between 2006 and 2011 and 4.5% (116,511) between 2011 and 2016 in 2016 persons aged 14 years and under made up 14.5% of the population and those aged 65 years and over made up 15.6% the median age was 39.3 years the city's gender population is 48% male and 52% female. Women outnumber men in all age groups 15 and older In 2016 foreign-born persons made up 47% of the population, compared to 49.9% in 2006. According to the United Nations Development Programme Toronto has the second-highest percentage of constant foreign-born population among world cities after Miami Florida While Miami's foreign-born population has traditionally consisted primarily of Cubans and other Latin Americans no single nationality or culture dominates Toronto's immigrant population placing it among the most diverse cities in the world in 2010 it was estimated over 100,000 immigrants arrive in the Greater Toronto Area each year Ethnicity. . An 1824 land deed for Upper Canada, When the Toronto Public School Board was first created elementary or common schools in the city did not have dedicated buildings but instead "the thousand-odd children who were registered as common school pupils were accommodated in rented premises--a dozen or so small halls and houses designated by numbers." This changed shortly after the election of the first board when six schools identical in architecture were built one in each ward of the city More schools with distinct designs were built over the coming decades Some of these original schools are listed in the order of their construction below:. Besides marine travel Upper Canada had a few Post roads or footpaths used for transportation by horse or stagecoaches along the key settlements between London to Kingston The Governor's Road was built beginning in 1793 from Dundas to Paris and then to the proposed capital of London by 1794 the road was further extended eastward with new capital of York in 1795 his road was eventually known as Dundas Road A second route was known as Lakeshore Road or York Road which was built from York to Trent River from 1799 to 1900 and later extended eastwards to Kingston in 1817 This road was later renamed as Kingston Road United States relations.

. . ! St Michael's College School Toronto was originally a term that referred to a indeterminate geographical location having been used on maps dating to the late 17th and early 18th century to refer to the approximate area that includes the present City of Toronto As the name was used to refer to the approximate area several historic settlements adjacent to the City of Toronto have also carried the name Toronto including Toronto Township and Toronto Gore Eventually the name was anchored to the mouth of the Humber River which is where the present City of Toronto is situated the bay serves as the end of the Toronto Carrying-Place Trail portage route from Georgian Bay There are several explanations for the source and meaning of the name "Toronto" One claim is that the origin is the Seneca word Giyando meaning "on the other side" which was the place where the Humber River narrows at the foot of the pass to the village of Teiaiagon Another is that the term is from the Mohawk word tkaronto meaning "where there are trees standing in the water" which originally referred to the Narrows near present-day Orillia where Hurons and other groups drove stakes into the water to create fish weirs French maps from the 1680s to 1760s identify present-day Lake Simcoe as Lac de Taronto the spelling changed to Toronto during the 18th century and the term gradually came to refer to a large region that included the location of the present-day city of Toronto As the portage route grew in use the name became more widely used and was eventually attached to a French trading fort just inland from Lake Ontario on the Humber Confusion over the origin of the name can be attributed to the succession of First Nations peoples who lived in the area including the Neutral Seneca Mohawk Cayuga and Wendat nations From August 1793 to March 1834 the settlement was known as York sharing the same name as the county it was situated in the settlement was renamed when Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe called for the town to be named after the Prince Frederick Duke of York and Albany to differentiate from York in England and New York City the town was known as "Little York" in 1804 settler Angus MacDonald petitioned the Parliament of Upper Canada to restore the original name of the area but this was rejected the town changed its name back to Toronto when it was incorporated into a city Early history. . . .